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Taiwan Business TOPICS The ROC’s two territories in the region have strategic and political significance, yet both are difficult to defend. Taiwan’s Coast Guard in March twice conducted live-fire drills on the Pratas Islands – known in Chinese as the “Dongsha” – located in the South China Sea 450 kilometers southwest of Kaohsiung. Such exercises were rare in years past. The Pratas are tiny, without permanent inhabitants, and remote. Among territories administered by Taiwan, only Itu Aba (Taiping Island), part of the Spratly Island archipelago, is more far-flung.  Yet the Pratas’ geography makes them vulnerable to Chinese coercion. Not only are the islets far from Taiwan, they also are flat and devoid of any natural defense positions. Beijing claims the Pratas along with almost all of the 3.5 million-square-kilometer South China Sea, where it has built many military installations. The Pratas are closer to Guangdong Province than to Taiwan – about 260 kilometers fro

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